Posted by Simon Perry on 26 February 2002 | Tagged as: Content
Sweden’s B2 Bredband has signed a deal with BBC Prime to enable their 70k subscribers to watch it through their PC. This is the first deal that BBC Prime has signed and it’s good to see BBC Worldwide becoming adventurous with the way they deliver their content.
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 February 2002 | Tagged as: Content
Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution are to provide films for the first Canadian VOD trial. 1,000 customer of Toronto-based Rogers Cable will take part in the trial.
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 February 2002 | Tagged as: Content
Alcatel and Italian broadcaster RAI have announced they will be streaming their 24hr news channel, RAI News 24 over 3G at 384 kbit/s during the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. I’m looking forward to reports on its results.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 February 2002 | Tagged as: Content
MGM have agreed to have their movies distributed by Intertainer. This adds to the deal they did last year with Universal. Viewers will be able to watch the movies on-demand (VOD). Intertainer currently only distribute their content to users who live in a number of region in the US and have at least a 580kbps connection. Not a great deal of chance of them distributing in the UK as the base BT ADSL service offers UPTO 500k - even if they could sort out movie distribution deals.
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 February 2002 | Tagged as: Content
Having now got out of the console market, Sega are innovating in gaming again. They are providing content and equipment to enable the distribution of games and PC software between ISP and their Broadband customers, thus avoiding any bottleneck their may be over the Internet.
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 January 2002 | Tagged as: Content
AOL-TW are to increase their monthly access fee to their content through non-AOL provided broadband connectivity by 50%. I imagine there are two reasons for this, 1) it’s a good lever to get people to change to AOL as their BB providers and 2) shifting BB content over a network that you don’t own end-to-end is expensive.
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 January 2002 | Tagged as: Content
A trial is just starting in Plano, Texas, USA to provide students access to rich-media educational material after normal school hours via DSL called MyPISD.net (PISD - Plano Independent Schools Districts). The initial trial includes one of each school level, Elementary, Middle and High School. The hitch which is touched upon is the fact the parents of the students need to provide the extra $50 extra dollars a month for access to the system.
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 January 2002 | Tagged as: Content
Australian cable company Optus are floating the idea of running pay-TV via DSL after their successful trial.
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 January 2002 | Tagged as: Content
The launch of the iMac reportedly brought very large numbers of viewer to its Webcast. Of course it’s a totally ideal audience, keen computer users who are passionate about their product being shown the newest toy by their demigod. Obviously there’s no discussion of cost of the event, 11 Terabytes is a lot of data/cash - and the fact that Apple are investors in Akamai must have helped. With actual figures of the bits shipped given this time rather than the vague ten million viewers given for the fabled Madonna concert, it’s far more believable. It’s a commonly held belief in the streaming industry that the Madonna 10m figure given was totally fictitious.
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 January 2002 | Tagged as: Content
RealNetworks announce lots of PVR, PDA and other consumer hardware companies to build RealOne Player into their products.
